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Technology and education: October 2010
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A blog on educational technology. Sunday, October 10, 2010. When do we get to teach? It is Sunday, and I just finished putting together the testing schedule for my school for a new round of tests our Area Office (at the behest of CPS CEO Ron Huberman) has mandated for us. Aside: I am looking at contracts 10-0623-PR33. From the June 23 Board of Education Report, you can also see them on the CPS Procurement and Contracts listing. 1 It is based on bad science. And as a result,. 2 It hurts students. I'm thin...
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Technology and education: Project Manistee Quest
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A blog on educational technology. Saturday, December 29, 2012. While at my old school, situated in an all-too-common high-need low-wealth urban neighborhood, I came to feel that the students lacked, for the most part, the opportunity to experience nature, to interact with the world in tangible, tactile ways. I felt it was a classic case of the problem that Richard Louv captured with his framing of " nature deficit disorder. I will post updates here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Indian Peaks, 2008.
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Technology and education: September 2011
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A blog on educational technology. Saturday, September 10, 2011. Losing the propaganda war. It is depressing how clumsy the Chicago Teachers Union has been in its propaganda war with Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The Mayor and CPS are running circles around the union - as Chicago News Coop columnist James Warren describes it. Against a longer school day, but you don't see that on the union website. Eachers already work a longer school day. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Technology and education: June 2011
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A blog on educational technology. Sunday, June 19, 2011. My school is losing half of its art position next year. As a "technology school", one may wonder why this might be big deal, but I beg to differ. A technology school without a strong arts program is a perversion of education. This, of course, is especially disruptive for the art teacher. I mean it really. Say, for example, that we take the National Educational Technology Standards for Students. There are other starting points than NETS-S. Hand ...
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Technology and education: May 2011
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A blog on educational technology. Sunday, May 29, 2011. We had a staff meeting at my school on Friday. Classroom teachers received forms for sorting their students into Tier 1, 2 and 3 groups for implementing Response to Intervention. Or RTI. K-2 grades will use DIBELS. Data to sort students, and grades 3 - 8 will use Scantron. I have written about the problems of standardized testing and "data-based decision making" before, likening it to the drunk looking for his car keys. The point, again, is that tes...
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Technology and education: Drunk driving
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A blog on educational technology. Sunday, May 29, 2011. We had a staff meeting at my school on Friday. Classroom teachers received forms for sorting their students into Tier 1, 2 and 3 groups for implementing Response to Intervention. Or RTI. K-2 grades will use DIBELS. Data to sort students, and grades 3 - 8 will use Scantron. I have written about the problems of standardized testing and "data-based decision making" before, likening it to the drunk looking for his car keys. The point, again, is that tes...
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Technology and education: July 2010
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A blog on educational technology. Saturday, July 24, 2010. Save Our Schools Rally. CPS and CTU have started talks, but based on what Karen Lewis reported at the meeting, a report on the CTU website. And an online report plus comments on the Catalyst blog. The union had sign-up sheets available for the various committees it has set up to undertake the reach-out campaign. The union's strategy reminded me of a report on the two-week long 2005 British Columbia teacher's strike. Getting out a counter-narrativ...
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Technology and education: September 2010
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A blog on educational technology. Sunday, September 5, 2010. I think we've known this, but I don't remember actually seeing it in print. Here is a concise summary regarding the Obama administration vis-a-vis teachers:. To a degree that almost nobody anticipated 19 months ago, Mr Obama . has alienated the largest single historical provider of cash and volunteers to the Democratic party – namely the teachers’ unions. The quote is from a an article. In the London-based Financial Times. See t he blog page.
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Technology and education: Clarification
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A blog on educational technology. Saturday, May 28, 2011. I want to clarify my previous post. As a reminder of one of the many pitfalls awaiting the tech-heavy lesson. I am teaching a course at Dominican U. Account to work on a course wiki we create. And they set up a Diigo. Account to begin a professional library of web resources and also to experience social bookmarking. For blogging, I suggest Google's blogger,. S Google Opt-Out Village. And hence the previous post, done during class to illustrate how...
